Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics

What is it about?

The success of the edentulous patients’ treatment also involves understanding the importance of the neutral zone in prosthetic dentistry. Professor Joseph J. Massad, together with his colleagues, has sought to provide us with the methods and techniques in which the neutral zone must be incorporated.The book entitled "Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics" contains 11 chapters and an index.The main objective of the book is to describe the current procedures in fabricating prostheses that include the neutral zone: implant-supported overdentures, fixed complete dentures and complete dentures.The authors exemplify the evaluation of edentulous patients, starting with the interview, facial analysis, prosthetic factors, oral characteristics, and then moving on to conditioning the abused tissues and stabilizing the existing prosthesis, seeking re-establishing the orthopedic mandibular position.There is an innovative, personal technique useful for each type of clinical prosthesis that simplifies fingerprinting, and reduces the number of clinical procedures.

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